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Taylor Combs

For twenty-eight years, Timothy Keller pastored Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. Educated at Bucknell University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary, Keller planted the church in 1989. Odds are, you’ve heard of him now; odds are, you had no idea who he was until some point in the last decade. Billy Graham once said …

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone begins on Privet Drive with an orphan, who is mistreated, despised, and unloved, holed away in a house that is not a home. It ends with a celebration. Harry, uniquely gifted, is applauded as a hero, alongside Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Neville Longbottom. These four unlikely heroes are …

Seminary is a valuable piece of pastoral training. But it’s only a piece. The church needs more pastors with seminary training, but seminary can’t give you everything you need. It provides critical instruction in systematic theology, Old and New Testament exegesis, hermeneutics, preaching, and church history. But pastoring requires far more than these. And some …

I am generally skeptical of statements like, “Every _____ should read _____.” There really are precious few books that should be “required reading for every _____.” Even as a book publisher, I cringe a bit when an endorsement is submitted with this language. It smacks of hyperbole, and I’m convinced that most potential readers will …